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T H I 
■Sencean, Sincan, Sax. ; dcncken, Dutch.] To have ideas; 
to compare terms or things ; to reason; to cogitate ; to per¬ 
form any mental operation, whether of apprehension^ or 
judgment. 
What am I ? or from whence ? for that I am 
I know, because I think; but whence I came, 
Or how this frame of mine began to be, 
What other being can disclose to me ? Dry den. 
To judge; to conclude; to determine.—Can it be thought 
that I have kept the gospel terms of salvation, without ever 
so much as intending, in any serious and deliberate manner, 
either to know them or keep them ? Law. —To intend. 
Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give, 
As one near death to those that wish him life. Sha/cspeare. 
To imagine; to fancy. 
Something since his coming forth is thought of, which 
Imports the kingdom so much fear and danger, 
That his return was most requir’d. Shakspeare. 
To muse; to meditate. 
You pine, you languish, love to be alone. 
Think much, speak little, and in speaking sigh. Dryden. 
To recollect; to observe. 
We are come to have the warrant. 
— Well thought upon; I have it here about me. 
Shakspeare. 
To judge; to be of opinion.—If your general acquaint¬ 
ance be among ladies, provided they have no ill reputation, 
you think you are safe. Swift. —To consider; to doubt; 
to deliberate.—Any one may think with himself, how then 
can any thing live in Mercury and Saturn. Bentley. 
To Think on. To contrive; to light upon by meditation. 
Still the -work was not complete. 
When Venus thought on a deceit. Swift. 
To Think of. To estimate.—The opinions of others 
whom we know and think well of, are no ground of assent. 
Locke. 
To THINK v. a. To imagine; to image in the mind; to 
conceive.— Think nought a trifle, though it small appear. 
Young. —To believe; to esteem.—Nor think superfluous 
others’ aid. Milton. 
To Think much. To grudge.—He thought not much to 
clothe his enemies. Milton. 
To Think scorn. To disdain. He thought scorn to lay 
hands on Mordecai alone. Esth. 
Me Thinketh. It seems to me. Me Thought. It ap¬ 
peared to me.—These are anomalous phrases of long con¬ 
tinuance and great authority, but not easily reconciled to 
grammar. In me thinketh , the verb being of the third 
person, seems to be referred not to the thing, and is therefore 
either active, as signifying to cause to think; or has the 
sense of seems, ?ne thinks it seems to me. —Me thought I 
saw the grave where Laura lay. Sidney. 
THI'NKER, s. One who thinks in a certain manner.—If 
a man had an ill-favoured nose, deep thinkers would impute 
the cause to the prejudice of his education. Swift. 
THI'NKING, s. Imagination; cogitation; judgment.— 
He put it by once; but, to my thinking, he would have fain 
have had it. Shakspeare. 
If we did think 
His contemplations were above the earth. 
And fix’d on spiritual objects, he should still 
Dwell in his musings ; but I am afraid 
His thinkings are below the moon, nor worth 
His serious considering. Shakspeare. 
TIII'NLY, adv. Not thickly. 
The wide domain 
Now green with grass, now gilt with grain, 
In russet robes of clover deep. 
Or thinly veil’d, and white with sheep. Shenstone. 
Not closely; not numerously. 
Our walls are thinly mann’d, our best men slain: 
The rest an heartless number, spent with watching. Dryden. 
THl'NNESS, s. [dinnejqe, Saxon.] The contrary to 
thickness; exility; tenuity.—Tickling is most in the soles, 
arm-holes and sides, because of the thinness of the skin. 
Bacon. —Paucity ; scarcity. 
The buzzard 
Invites the feather’d Nimrods of his race 
To hide the thinness of their flock from sight. 
And all together make a seeming goodly flight. Dryden. 
Rareness; not spissitude.—-Those pleasures that spring 
from honour the mind can nauseate, and quickly feel the 
thinness of a popular breath. South. 
THIONVILLE, a town in the north-east of France, the 
capital of an arrondissement, and situated on the Moselle, 
over which it has a fine wooden bridge, defended by a horn- 
work; 17 miles north of Metz, and 22 south of Luxemburg. 
THIRD, adj. [bprdba, Saxon.] The first after the 
second; the ordinal of three.—This is the third time; I 
hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Shakspeare. 
THIRD, s. The third part. 
To thee and thine hereditary ever. 
Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom. Shakspeare. 
The protestant subjects of the abbey make up a third of 
its people. Addison. —The sixtieth part of a second.— 
Divide the natural day into twenty-four equal parts, an hour 
into sixty minutes, a minute into sixty seconds, a second into 
sixty thirds. Holder. 
THIRD, Point, a cape on the east coast of Sumatra, in 
the straits of Banca. Lat. 2. 24. S. long. 105. 39. E. 
THI'RDBOROUGH, s. An under-constable. 
All the wise of the hundred; 
Old Rasi’ Clench of Hamstead, petty constable; 
In-and-in Medley, cooper of Islington, 
And heaaborough, with loud To-Pan the tinker 
Or metal-man of Belsie, the thirdborough. B. Jonson. 
THI'RDLY, adv. In the third place.—-First, metals are 
more durable than plants; secondly, they are more solid ; 
thirdly, they are wholly subterrany. Bacon. 
THlRKLEBY, a township of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire ; 10 miles east-by-south of New Malton. 
THlRKLEBY, another township in the same Riding; 5| 
miles north-east of Kingston-upon-Hull. 
THlRKLEBY, a parish of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 4| miles south-east of Thirsk. 
To THIRL, v. a. [Sipliau, Saxon.] To pierce; to per¬ 
forate. It is now pronounced and written thrill. Dr' John¬ 
son. —Not universally : thirl is still a northern word, in this 
sense. 
THIRLBY, a township of England, North Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 5 miles east-north-east of Thirsk. 
THIRLWALL, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland, 
near the borders of Cumberland, where the Piets’ wall passed 
the river Tippil, near the Irthing. 
THIRNE, or Thorne, a township of England, North 
Riding of Yorkshire; 4 miles south-west-by-west of Bedale. 
THIRSK, a market town and borough of England, in the 
North Riding of Yorkshire. It is a pleasant and well built 
town, and is agreeably situated in a plain, almost surrounded 
with hills, on the banks of a brook called Coatbeck, over 
which there are two small but substantial stone bridges. Old 
Thirsk is a borough by prescription, and returns two mem¬ 
bers to parliament. The right of election is vested in the 
burgage tenements, now only 50 in number, of which 49 
belong to Sir Thomas Frankland, baronet. Market on Mon¬ 
day, and eight annual fairs. Contains 743 houses, and 2155 
inhabitants; 20 miles north-west of York, and 220 north-by¬ 
west of London. Lat. 54. 14. N. long. 1. 20. W. 
THIRST, s. [Syppt, Saxon; dorst, Dutch.] See To 
Thirst. — The pain suffered for want of drink; want of 
drink. 
Thus accurs’d. 
In midst of water I complain of thirst. Dryden. 
Eagerness; 
